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AGP440.sys error on Windows 2000 machine

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by mtreske

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One of our computers froze up today and her screen went black.
Upon a restart the computer freezes up at boot up or when it gets to the windows 2000 splash screen.
I restarted in safe mode and it stopped at the agp440.sys line, and after a few minutes proceeded on, where eventully it would hang at the login screen.

If it is indeed this driver gone bad, can I from a boot disk, copy a good driver over the bad?

I could use any suggestions!

Thank you!

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by rawright

If you made a boot disk, you can use it to get back up and running, then use the Emergency Recovery Disk you made when the PC was working to fully recover. On the other hand, if you're as dumb as I was and failed to make these (I really do know better, but I screwed up), an alternative I discovered the hard way is to boot from the original Win2K CD. You may have to first boot into SETUP to change the BIOS Boot Device selections, but most newer BIOSs allow this. From there, rerun the Win2K setup from the CD and select the option to repair a damaged installation. This should redetect your hardware and install fresh copies of the proper drivers. If you can boot as far as a command prompt without crashing, you may also be able to run the Win2k setup from there, without the hassle of changing the BIOS settings.

Tedious, but having just done this myself, I know it works. You might also discover that it is the hardware that is damaged. If you have an integrated, all-in-one mainboard and the ASP port suffers a problem, you may not even be able to get the basic VGA video to work. That's a worst-case though; try everything you can in software first, before replacing parts. Good Luck.

by mtreske

Thank you for your help.It was damaged hardware.It is an intergrated board and the basic VGA wouldn't work, I had already done the first suggestions you made and when I saw your answer knew you had the answer.
Lucky for me we had another box available so I just pulled the hard disk and added a new video card the the box and she is up and running.

Thanks!

by montea7

Try this for your problem:
Go into BIOS
Remove all video caching
Make sure assign IRQ to VGA is selected

Save and Exit

by jesselou

try to repair your installation by using your erd or w2kcd select fast repair. if this does not work rename the agp440.sys in your w2kinstallation folder to agp440.old then extract or copy a fresh agp440.sys to your w2kcd to be copied in your w2kinstallation folder.delete your winnt directory and reinstall w2k by using your w2kinstallation folder.

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